Corrective Action Plans

Finding No.: 2019-006 Federal Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services CFDA Program: 93.104 Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (SED) Award Number: 6U79SM062447-04M001 and 6U79SM062447-04M004 Area: Matching, Level of Effort, Earmarking Questioned Costs: $-0- Contact Persons: Perlie Santos, Chief Financial Officer; Reyna Saures, CGC Director; Vincent Camacho, Grants Administrator. Corrective Action: CHCC does not concur with these findings. CHCC affirms that the Match used to support activities of H71040 and H81040 were from verifiable records, and not from other federal funds. Costs were reasonable and necessary to accomplish the program’s objectives and were provided to and approved by the awarding agency. Finding No.: 2019-006 Continued Furthermore, CHCC sought clarification with SAMHSA and received notice that a match waiver for the Territories of up to $200,000 is applicable to all SAMHSA grants received based on the following federal statute: “Pub. L. 96-205, title VI, Sec. 601, Mar. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 90, as amended Pub. L. 98-213, Sec. 6, Dec. 8, 1983, 97 Stat. 1460; Pub. L. 98-454, title VI, Sec. 601(b), Oct. 5, 1984, 98 Stat. 1736, subsection (d): ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands any department or agency shall waive any requirement for local matching funds under $200,000 (including in-kind contributions) required by law to be provided by American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, or the Northern Mariana Islands. Therefore, whatever match amount required per year should be reduced by $200,000 for the Northern Mariana Islands. Summarized below are the required and reported match amounts derived from the Final FFR for Grant SM062447, which included activities for H71040 and H81040 for fiscal year 2019. SOC_CHH61040_Matching_Revised013019.docx SOC_CHH71040 Matching.docx SOC_CHH81040_FY19 Matching.docx SOC_CHH81040_NCE Matching.docx Proposed Completion Date: Not applicable as CHCC does not concur with the findings.